In many ways, the Civil War transformed America into what it is today. What positives can you think of have come about as a result of Reconstruction...
Family history tells that some of the local boys from our area trudged home from Gettysburg wearing no shoes. Considering that Gettysburg is a few...
What were some of the repercussions of Lincoln's assassination during the years following the Civil War? How might Reconstruction efforts have been...
I've read of agencies such as the Secret Service Bureau that was comprised of parties sympathetic to the Southern cause. What kinds of espionage were...
Don't forget that the Civil War was not just about slavery. It was about the right of each individual state to make its own choices. The issue...
War within a country is nothing new to countries throughout the world. Most of them have experienced, and even are experiencing, civil wars within...
I've read many of the slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project and found them eye-opening in shedding light on the lives of former slaves...
My great-great-grandfather was killed in Virginia during the Civil War, but before that, he was imprisoned at Point Lookout in Maryland. America was...
Most of the material I've read on the Civil War has been in areas close to the coastal areas. In the western theater, more rivers would be involved,...
Every war has poets grow out of it who express the emotions of the people from deepest emotional feelings. What poet, if any, have others enjoyed...
I often wonder who depended the most on goods going in and out of blockaded ports. Was it the people in America waiting for manufactured goods from...
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